There was a chance for us to extend our winning streak with the pooja holidays on oct 5th and oct 6th as the DA' FREAKS made the best use of it to register back to back victories in two days.
Oct 5th:
Score: DA' FREAKS - 66\8 in 12 Overs
Opponent - 56 all out in 11 Overs
Result : DA' FREAKS Won by 10 Runs!!..
Oct 6th:
Score: DA' FREAKS - 73\8 in 12 Overs
Opponent - 61\4 in 12 Overs
Result: DA' FREAKS Won by 12 Runs!!..
The great thing of both these victories was how we managed to win inspite being down on players. The match on oct 5th was against a unknown opponent as we decided to bat first after winning the toss. As we did not have both our regular openers we had to gone in with new pair. The start was not excellent as we kept losing as the runs was also not coming. I got a chance to bat after a pretty longtime!!..I tried to keep the scoreboard ticking in the middle overs but it was towards the end we ended up scoring only 66 runs which was not a great score but was pretty decent.
The opponents got to a very bad start losing wickets and we were in control for most part of the game. But the runs kept coming as we kept picking wickets. Another bad over in the crucial stage by jagan resulted in the opponents requiring just 16 runs in 4 overs with 3 wickets in hand. I decided to bring myself on for the first time in the day which worked very well as i picked up 2 wickets and giving away just 2 runs. Sri bowled the next over and we managed to get a run out of the last ball of his over and hence winning by a narrow margin.
The game on Oct 6th was against dinesh team after a very longtime. It was a bet match of Rs.50 as well. We has only 9 players as we won the toss and batted first again. We had yogesh this time around opening the batting with prasad the start was not great as runs was hard to come by as we lost prasad in the very first over. Then Ganesh played a few dot balls in the middle leading to runs not flowing as expected. But we had some good overs towards the end thanks mainly to sriram,sridhar and freddie as they increased the run rate. We had a good finish towards the end taking our score to 73 in 12 overs.
The ground was pretty empty and with only 9 fielders we never felt comfortable with the score. Myself and maddy started off the bowling as we hardly had any bowlers to bowl. Sriram their main batsmen walked into open the innings. We had an excellent first 4 overs giving away only 16 odd runs but did not manage to pick up any wickets. Sri and yogesh bowled in the middle overs. Sri struglled a bit with his line but eveytime he pitched the ball up he was very hard to score off. Yogesh was a bit rusty but managed to keep the runs down. The opponents did not lose any wickets in the first 8 overs but scored only 35 runs. They lost their first wicket only in the 10th over.16 runs was needed of the last over which i bowled. I gave just 4 runs and picked up a wicket as we won by 12 runs.
There was great satisfaction as we won with such limited resources and what was commendable was even though we did not pick wickets we did not give away any boundaries even though sriram batted for long.
The teams we played on both days were different and we had different challenges but still we came out trumps!!..
THE STREAK CONTINUES!!....
Cheers,
Manikandan
Saturday, October 8, 2011
DA' FREAKS Register their First Win in Gopalapuram as the Winning Streak Continues!!..
The Match played on 2nd October(Sunday)in the most unluckiest venue resulted in a big win for DA' Freaks!!..
DA' FREAKS: Mani,Sridhar,Jagan,Yogesh,Raghu,Ram,Sriram,Prasad,Sudarshan,Muthu
Score: Opponent - 84 all out in 13.4 Overs
DA' Freaks - 85\1 in 10 Overs
Result: DA' FREAKS Won by 9 Wickets with 4 overs to spare!!..
The week game itself was off to a bad start as we were running short of players and we somehow managed to have 10 people on the park. To add to it alphonso was not in good shape to play and the fact that we did not put a match with anyone made things even harder as we moved on to gopalapuram to play admist confusions. We managed to get hold of a team at last and the match was on!!...
The ground was very crowded and made life very difficult as we lost the toss and had to bowl first. The start was decent with myself and jagan sharing the opening spell. I bowled two quite overs as jagan leaked runs from the other end. Sridhar and Raghu bowled very well in the middle overs. Infact raghu picked up the first wicket of the day in the 6th over. We managed to keep the run flow down even though we did not pick any wickets. Sri bowled well in the middle to get us some wickets. Raghu took a couple of wickets as well. At the crucial juncture jagan leaked 16 runs in one over shifting the momentum. I managed to bowl a execellent last over which was maiden and had 3 wickets falling with a couple being run outs. We finally restricted them to 84 which was a nominal score in the huge outfield.
The openers ram and yogesh who have now become our regular opening pair started off the chase in emphatic fashion scoring 49 runs in 6 overs. Ram was particularly excellent on the day smashing the bowlers around the park. Yogesh kept the score board ticking before he was out with the score being 49. The life was lot easier for us as we even managed to even give few other batsmen a go by asking ram to cut short his magnificent innings. In the end we finished off the chase in 10 overs which was an excellent result.
Great effort by the guys as we march on with the winning streak!!..
Cheers,
Manikandan
DA' FREAKS: Mani,Sridhar,Jagan,Yogesh,Raghu,Ram,Sriram,Prasad,Sudarshan,Muthu
Score: Opponent - 84 all out in 13.4 Overs
DA' Freaks - 85\1 in 10 Overs
Result: DA' FREAKS Won by 9 Wickets with 4 overs to spare!!..
The week game itself was off to a bad start as we were running short of players and we somehow managed to have 10 people on the park. To add to it alphonso was not in good shape to play and the fact that we did not put a match with anyone made things even harder as we moved on to gopalapuram to play admist confusions. We managed to get hold of a team at last and the match was on!!...
The ground was very crowded and made life very difficult as we lost the toss and had to bowl first. The start was decent with myself and jagan sharing the opening spell. I bowled two quite overs as jagan leaked runs from the other end. Sridhar and Raghu bowled very well in the middle overs. Infact raghu picked up the first wicket of the day in the 6th over. We managed to keep the run flow down even though we did not pick any wickets. Sri bowled well in the middle to get us some wickets. Raghu took a couple of wickets as well. At the crucial juncture jagan leaked 16 runs in one over shifting the momentum. I managed to bowl a execellent last over which was maiden and had 3 wickets falling with a couple being run outs. We finally restricted them to 84 which was a nominal score in the huge outfield.
The openers ram and yogesh who have now become our regular opening pair started off the chase in emphatic fashion scoring 49 runs in 6 overs. Ram was particularly excellent on the day smashing the bowlers around the park. Yogesh kept the score board ticking before he was out with the score being 49. The life was lot easier for us as we even managed to even give few other batsmen a go by asking ram to cut short his magnificent innings. In the end we finished off the chase in 10 overs which was an excellent result.
Great effort by the guys as we march on with the winning streak!!..
Cheers,
Manikandan
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